Ang Lee has a new religion in digital. Will anyone follow?
JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Ang Lee's conversion began with "Life of Pi."
It was the director's first movie in 3-D, and he sweated anxiously over the implementation of the technology and the torturous process of adapting Yann Martel's fanciful and allegorical book set principally in a raft containing a 450-pound Bengal tiger.
Lee was excited, though, to challenge himself with, as he says, a new dimension. But an early trial — a test shot with a dancing Indian girl — was disappointing.
"I realized I couldn't see anything. I couldn't see her expression. There was so much jitter. I thought something was wrong with the camera," recalls Lee. "I sort of freaked out. But I couldn't back out. That started my journey."
That journey has turned into one of the more unexpect